He learns about how the Free People live while at the same time tries to understand what happened on the day of the crash and who attacked him. He needs to regain his powers by joining a faction. He is knocked out for days, in which time most of the Elex clears out of his body, leaving him weak and alone in an unknown location and with a "Chaos of Emotions" (as one of the quests is called). His aircraft is shot down by an unknown enemy and then crashes over a mountain. Jax, the protagonist, is an Alb Commander on a special mission. They use the most advanced technology of Magalan and work blindly under the command of the Hybrid, an ancient being that wants to gather all the Elex of the planet to achieve a new state of evolution for the Albs.
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The Albs are ex-Clerics who decided they should use Elex by consuming it directly into their bodies, making them very strong at the cost of their emotions and skin pigmentation. These factions – the Free People – fight each other over resources, land, and Elex, but they all share a common enemy: the Albs. The Clerics believe in a god called Calaan, are the most knowledgeable and technologically advanced faction, and believe that their religion can save the world. They use any modern weapons and technology they can find, being masters of putting to use any old scrap they use Elex to create powerful drugs. The Outlaws only want profit and freedom. The Berserkers reject technology and purify the Elex by transforming it into Mana in order to obtain magical but natural powers they do this by growing World Hearts, large plants that they believe heal the ground and thus the planet. The few survivors organised themselves in factions, each with a different vision of the future and distinct ways of using Elex. Somebody please forward this to Pankratz, or volles Pfund aufs Maul.ELEX is the post-apocalyptic story of the planet Magalan, which was hit by a comet which brought not only mass destruction for its civilization, but also a mysterious and extremely powerful resource called Elex. But then Hoge et all have also long left the building already, so the company and its design ethos may be very different from back then from the ground-up. Had PB gone down this route and really nailed their expertise - maybe by now they would have blown Warren Spector's dream project out of the water and carved their own niche truly. Detailed NPC schedules, each NPC being more or less unique, a landscape you could actually travel and map by its unique landmarks. What set it apart wasn't so much the size, but the detail. Gothic (1) was basically Ultima 9, a 3D simulation of a world, except arguably more successful. Whatever was iffy about the Risens (never played any of them except some demos), with Elex they're doing what even blockbuster studios on occasion appear to struggle with (hence lots of filler stuff even in Bioware/Bethsoft games, let alone Ubi et all): Building huge ass worlds and then trying to fill them with content. In particular the first realization is intriguing, and I think it's where PB went wrong, considering that exploration in the original Gothics was/is such a joy. In those regards, aforementioned unnamed open world game which sort of witcher senses itself (when it's not playing another goddamn cutscene) fares a tad better. I was never particularly hugely fond of the game's world though. It also occured to me that what I liked about Elex I was pretty much a given in open world games some twenty years ago: that you're not being guided and baby-sitted this much that the thing blatantly plays itself. Once the challenge was gone, and the late-game sent me to places I'd already seen many times over, I stopped playing. I think this vintage post goes a bit into it all, as that was the tipping point by which the game gradually degressed for me. I played Elex The First far longer than some other unnamed open world game which sort of witcher senses itself (when it's not playing another goddamn bloody cutscene).īut, at some point, I stopped playing.
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